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Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings 2022
25 November - 30 November 2022
New Delhi, India
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Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
59th ABU General Assembly and Associated Meetings 2022
25 November - 30 November 2022
New Delhi, India
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The interior of 59503 “Nina” is particularly interesting because the vehicle has undergone a substantial change of purpose during its life. It began as the centre vehicle of a British Rail Class 117 three-car diesel multiple unit, specifically a Trailer Composite with Lavatory (TCL), providing both first- and second-class accommodation as well as the unit's toilet. Today it is a preserved, hauled passenger coach on the Dartmouth Steam Railway, where it has been extensively adapted and now provides second-class accommodation in a style intended to complement the railway's locomotive-hauled heritage coaches.
59503 was built by the Pressed Steel Company at Linwood as part of the Class 117 programme, which produced 123 vehicles between 1959 and 1961. The standard three-car formation consisted of a Driving Motor Brake Second (DMBS), Trailer Composite with Lavatory (TCL), and Driving Motor Second (DMS). The centre vehicle was therefore deliberately different from the two powered cars: it was the accommodation car, with a mixture of classes and the toilet facilities.
When new, the interior reflected the requirements of the Western Region's suburban railway. Class 117s were designed primarily for high-density local services, particularly those operating from London Paddington, Reading and Southall. The coaches had conventional compartment-free saloon interiors with rows of seats arranged for relatively frequent-stop suburban travel. The centre TCL provided the only toilet accommodation within the original three-car formation.
An important feature of the original arrangement was the distinction between first and second class. As a Trailer Composite, 59503 contained both classes of accommodation. The first-class section provided the more spacious accommodation expected of first class, while the second-class section formed the majority of the passenger accommodation.
The interior was subsequently altered during the British Rail period. Class 117s were given life-extending refurbishment during the 1970s, when their interiors were renewed. The refurbishment was part of the wider effort to keep the first-generation DMUs useful while newer trains were being introduced elsewhere.
Another significant change was the installation of gangways. The Class 117s had originally been built without inter-vehicle gangways, meaning that passengers could not walk through the train from one vehicle to another. Gangways were subsequently fitted between 1965 and 1972. This substantially changed the character of the interior because the centre trailer was no longer simply an isolated vehicle accessible through its own doors; it became part of a connected train.
The arrangement was typical of first-generation British DMUs. These trains were designed as self-contained suburban units rather than as locomotive-hauled trains. Their interiors consequently emphasised rapid boarding and alighting, with doors opening directly into the passenger saloons.
59503 had a particularly long career on the national railway. It was initially associated with the Western Region, where Class 117s were used extensively on services around London and the Thames Valley. By the later years of the class, individual vehicles and units had moved around the country as railway requirements changed. The class eventually disappeared from regular front-line passenger service around the turn of the century.
The story of 59503 became much more unusual after its withdrawal. Rather than being scrapped, the vehicle was acquired for preservation by the Dart Valley Railway, the organisation operating what is now the Dartmouth Steam Railway. It joined a collection of former Class 116 and 117 centre cars that were acquired during the 1980s and 1990s.
The reason for acquiring these vehicles was quite ingenious. Although they were designed as diesel multiple-unit vehicles, their appearance was sufficiently reminiscent of older Great Western suburban coaches that the Dartmouth railway could use them as hauled passenger stock behind steam locomotives.
The vehicles were consequently adapted so that they could be coupled to locomotive-hauled stock. This transformed their purpose completely. Rather than being powered members of a diesel multiple unit, they became ordinary passenger coaches hauled by steam or diesel locomotives.
59503's original composite interior was also changed. The first-class seating was removed, as was the original toilet. The vehicle was converted to provide essentially second-class accommodation throughout. This is why the interior seen today differs substantially from the interior for which the vehicle was originally constructed.
The conversion was part of a wider strategy at Dartmouth. The railway created a rake of former suburban DMU centre cars painted in a Great Western-inspired chocolate-and-cream livery, allowing them to blend visually with the railway's steam locomotives and other historic coaches.
This was never intended to be an exact restoration of an original Great Western carriage. The vehicles remained recognisably products of the British Railways first-generation DMU era, but their interiors and exteriors were adapted to make them practical components of the Dartmouth Steam Railway's tourist trains.
59503 acquired the name “Nina” during its preservation career. It became a familiar member of the Dartmouth railway's unusual fleet of former DMU trailers and was regularly used alongside other Class 116 and 117 vehicles.
For many years, these vehicles were an important part of the railway's passenger capacity. The Dartmouth Steam Railway is predominantly steam operated and does not normally use DMUs in their original self-propelled form. Instead, the former DMU centre cars have functioned as vacuum-braked hauled coaches.
The interior of 59503 consequently became a hybrid of railway eras. Its basic structure and many features originated in the 1960s, but its passenger seating and interior finish were adapted during preservation to suit its new role.
A particularly important refurbishment took place around 2022. The Dartmouth Steam Railway reported on 31 August 2022 that 59503 “Nina” had been overhauled following approximately 15 years since its previous refurbishment. The interior was the principal focus of this work.
The railway replaced the upper sections of the old interior panelling with new timber panelling. The lower sections were upholstered, giving the saloon a warmer and more traditional appearance.
The original preservation-era seating was also removed. In its place, the railway installed new seating similar to that used in British Railways Mark 1 carriages.
This is an important detail when looking at photographs of the interior. The Mark 1-style seats are not evidence that 59503 was originally a Mark 1 coach. The vehicle remains a Pressed Steel Class 117 centre trailer, but its seating has deliberately been made to resemble the seating found in the much more familiar locomotive-hauled Mark 1 stock.
The result is intended to make the vehicle feel more at home within the Dartmouth Steam Railway's locomotive-hauled trains.
The refurbishment was carried out in-house by the Dartmouth Steam Railway rather than being contracted entirely to an external carriage-restoration company. The railway reported that passengers had praised both the workmanship and the improved appearance following the work.
The interior therefore has several historical layers.
The first layer is the 1960s British Railways Class 117 interior, created for suburban passenger work.
The second is the 1970s British Railways refurbishment, when the first-generation DMUs received life-extending interior improvements.
The third is the preservation conversion, when 59503 lost its first-class accommodation and toilet and became an all-second-class hauled coach.
The fourth is the 2022 Dartmouth Steam Railway refurbishment, which replaced worn interior panels and seating with new materials and Mark 1-style seats.
This succession of changes is what makes the interior historically interesting. It is not an untouched museum exhibit. It is an interior that has evolved repeatedly in response to the vehicle's changing railway role.
The original designation TCL — Trailer Composite with Lavatory is particularly revealing. “Trailer” indicates that the vehicle had no traction equipment of its own; “Composite” means that it contained more than one passenger class; and “Lavatory” indicates the provision of a toilet. The modern vehicle is now classified in preservation as a TS, Trailer Standard, reflecting the removal of the original first-class and toilet arrangements.
The change from TCL to TS is therefore not simply a renumbering or administrative change. It describes a genuine transformation in the interior.
The vehicle's original toilet area is no longer part of the passenger accommodation. Likewise, the first-class section has disappeared, leaving a uniform second-class interior.
This is particularly significant because it means that the present saloon should not be interpreted as an authentic recreation of what a passenger would have encountered aboard a Class 117 in 1960. Instead, it is a preserved Class 117 body and interior space adapted for heritage railway use.
There is nevertheless considerable historical authenticity in the vehicle's underlying structure. The body, windows, doors, roof and general saloon arrangement remain products of the 1959–61 Class 117 design.
The vehicle is also approximately 64 feet long, with a steel body and the characteristic appearance of the Pressed Steel first-generation DMUs. Class 117s had a maximum speed of approximately 70 mph when operating as DMUs.
59503 itself no longer needs the engines, transmission or driving controls of a powered DMU because it is now hauled as a conventional coach. This makes its present interior experience particularly interesting: passengers are sitting inside a vehicle that was designed to form the centre of a self-propelled train, but the vehicle is now being pulled along the railway by a locomotive.
The Dartmouth Steam Railway has operated this type of preserved DMU coach for roughly three decades. The railway acquired its first Class 116 centre cars in 1984, followed by several Class 117 centre cars during the 1990s. These became a sizeable fleet of hauled stock.
For around 30 years, as many as seven of these former DMU trailers could be found in regular use, often mixed with traditional Mark 1 coaching stock. This explains why 59503's Mark 1-style interior is particularly appropriate: the vehicle is designed to operate alongside actual Mark 1 coaches.
The 2022 refurbishment therefore helped extend the useful life of 59503 at precisely the point when its original interior was showing its age.
The railway's later decision to acquire additional Mark 1 stock led to a reduction in the number of former DMU vehicles required. Nevertheless, 59503 remains listed as an operational Class 117 TS at Paignton & Dartmouth Railway, alongside 59494, 59513 and 59517.
The survival of 59503 is notable in the wider context of Class 117 preservation. The class has survived in relatively substantial numbers, with examples of all three original vehicle types represented in preservation. However, many preserved vehicles have been altered from their original condition, particularly centre trailers such as 59503 that have found new uses.
59503 is consequently particularly representative of the second life of first-generation DMU vehicles. Its current role demonstrates how vehicles that were once considered obsolete could be repurposed by heritage railways without necessarily being restored to their original configuration.
The interior also tells the story of changing expectations of passenger accommodation. The original Class 117 was designed around a dense suburban service pattern, with practical seating and rapid boarding. The present Dartmouth interior has instead been designed for a leisure journey, where comfort, appearance and compatibility with historic locomotive-hauled stock are much more important.
The 2022 refurbishment makes that change especially obvious. The replacement timber panelling, upholstered lower sections and Mark 1-style seats give the saloon a more traditional railway carriage atmosphere than the original suburban DMU interior.
There is consequently an interesting visual contradiction. From the outside, “Nina” retains the distinctive appearance of a first-generation Pressed Steel DMU trailer. Inside, however, the passenger encounters an interior deliberately influenced by the classic BR Mark 1 carriage.
This is entirely appropriate to the Dartmouth Steam Railway, where the vehicle functions as part of a locomotive-hauled heritage train rather than as a surviving working DMU.
The name “Nina” also helps distinguish 59503 from its original identity as a BR vehicle. It gives the carriage an individual character within the Dartmouth fleet, much as the railway's steam locomotives carry names such as “Hercules”, “Lydham Manor” and “Goliath”.
The vehicle's preservation therefore represents an unusual form of railway history. It does not preserve a single moment in time. Instead, it preserves the evolution of a railway vehicle from 1960s suburban transport into a twenty-first-century heritage coach.
The interior is the clearest expression of that evolution.
A passenger entering the carriage today is effectively seeing four generations of history at once: the original Pressed Steel construction, the British Railways refurbishment, the Dartmouth preservation conversion and the 2022 in-house refurbishment.
The result is an interior that is historic without pretending to be completely original.
59503 “Nina” began life as a first-generation Class 117 Trailer Composite with Lavatory, providing both first- and second-class accommodation in a suburban diesel multiple unit. Its first-class section and toilet were removed during its preservation conversion, and it became an all-second-class hauled coach on the Dartmouth Steam Railway. Its later refurbishment replaced the ageing interior panels and seating, with new timber upper panelling, upholstered lower sections and Mark 1-style seats.
The carriage's interior is therefore a particularly good example of adaptive railway preservation. Rather than being frozen in the condition in which British Railways abandoned it, 59503 has been modified repeatedly so that the vehicle can continue to carry passengers.
That makes “Nina” especially interesting within the Dartmouth Steam Railway's fleet. The carriage is a survivor of the first-generation DMU era, yet it now works behind steam locomotives on a former Great Western railway, carrying holidaymakers through the Devon countryside.
Its present interior is consequently not simply the inside of an old diesel multiple unit. It is the visible result of more than six decades of changing railway practice, preservation and refurbishment, culminating in the 2022 work that gave 59503 the comfortable and distinctly traditional interior that passengers see today.
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
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Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, delivers his closing remarks at the Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Fifth Session of the High-Level Committee on Programmes by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 October 2025.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
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Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Leadership Development Programme closing ceremony held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 23 February 2024.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General
Margaret Doane, IAEA Deputy Director General and Head of the Department of Management
Najat Mokhtar, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Nuclear Sciences and Applications
Massimo Aparo, IAEA Deputy Director-General and Head of the Department of Safeguards
Peter Frobel, IAEA Director, (MTHR)
Neve Badalamente, IAEA Learning and Development Specialist
Rafael Mariano Grossi, IAEA Director-General, delivers his remarks at the Fifth Session of the High-Level Committee on Programmes by the United Nations System Chief Executives Board for Coordination held at the Agency headquarters in Vienna, Austria. 2 October 2025.
Photo Credit: Dean Calma / IAEA
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